Cats Quotes

"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!"

Théophile Gautier

"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat."

Jules Renard

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."

Joseph Wood Krutch

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth."

Jules Verne

"There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat."

Tay Hohoff

"You can not look at a sleeping cat and feel tense."

Jane Pauley

"Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties."

W. L. George

"Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own."

John Dingman

"Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat."

Lillian Johnson

"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be."

Elizabeth Peters

"Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it."

Rod McKuen

"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk."

Walter Scott

"A home without a cat – and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat – may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Mark Twain

"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat."

Warren Eckstein

"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."

Doug Larson

"I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats."

Eckhart Tolle

"With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?"

Fernand Méry

"A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather."

Judith Merkle Riley

"Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place."

Paul Gray

"Never try to outstubborn a cat."

Robert A. Heinlein

"When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?"

Michel de Montaigne

"The cat is, above all things, a dramatist."

Margaret Benson

"Dogs eat. Cats dine."

Ann Taylor

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't."

Nan Porter